Republican Majority Leader U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor: Silicon Valley has nothing on Midland

U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican House majority leader from Virginia, compared the global reach of technology mecca Silicon Valley to Midland on Monday. “It’s ironic, you go to Silicon Valley, and they say if you live in Silicon Valley you wake up thinking globally,” he told a gathering of about 300 Republicans in the ballroom of Midland’s The H Hotel at a breakfast fundraiser. “I don’t think Silicon Valley has anything on Midland, Michigan." “The irony of a state that’s had such challenges and to have a community like this that is leading the global competition ... hats off to you.”

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